Keeping Forests Inc
Nonprofit profile at a glance
- EIN
- 334528057
- IRS 990-EZ coverage
- 2025–2025
- Forms available
- Form 990-EZ 2025
- Location
- Atlanta, GA, USA
- Phone
- 4048951224
- Rating confidence
- Limited
- Sector
- Forest Conservation
Reported finances
- Revenue
- $160,100
- Assets
- $160,100
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Amounts in USD.
Leadership & pay
3 people listed
Executive titles in this filing
- Laura Calandrella (President)
People named in this filing
- Laura Calandrella (President)
- Wib Owen (Board Secretary)
- Rick Cantrell (Board Secretary)
Selected names, not a complete roster or a statement of current roles. Open leadership details for the complete filed list.
Source: IRS Form 990-EZ. Selected filing: tax year 2025. Names and roles reflect this filing, not necessarily current officeholders.
Overview
Mission
Keeping Forests exists to a develop innovative market-based approaches to support private landowners who are actively managing over 86% of the 245 million acres of timberlands in the U.S. South; b to provide education in illuminating the economic and environmental benefits that Southern forests provide by increasing the value of privately owned forests; c to empower the next generation of landowners conservationists consumers and citizens to keep forests as forests.
What it reported doing in 2025
During its first fiscal year Keeping Forests completed organizational start-up secured founding corporate sponsorships to fund forest-conservation programming and established the operational and financial infrastructure to launch program activities in the following year.
Operating model
- Revenue model
- Donor-supported. 100% of the money available for current operations came from contributions and gifts.
- Distribution model
- Cannot be determined from the filing. The filing does not provide enough consistent spending detail to tell whether the nonprofit works directly or through others.
The verdict
- The available evidence is not sufficient to produce an overall rating for this filing. This is not a warning sign.
Rating breakdown
- Financial Efficiency: NotEnoughData
- Transparency & Controls: 100
- Sustainability: NotEnoughData
- Growth: NotEnoughData
Detailed rating inputs
Financial Efficiency
- Mission deployment rate: Limited
- Program expense ratio: Limited
Transparency & Controls
- Consistency checks: 100%; rating input score 100; 52nd percentile among comparable filings
- Major donor itemization: Yes; rating input score 100
Sustainability
- Operating margin: Limited
- Total-asset coverage ratio: Limited
- Liabilities to assets ratio: Limited
- Officer compensation ratio: Limited
Growth
- Program expense growth: Limited
- Revenue growth: Limited
- Asset growth: Limited
Details
- Where the money goes: Financial trends and filed revenue, expense, asset, and liability detail
- Governance: Filed governance answers
- Accomplishments: 1 filed program accomplishment
- Leadership: top reported pay $0 · 3 people listed
- Consistency: 3 of 3 current checks pass
- Schedules: 2 filed schedules
- Contacts: How to reach this organization
- Grant readiness: Federal tax and exclusion status, award history, and grant-maker relationships.
- People: Everyone the filings name, and which of them the filings identify by more than a name.